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IBM targets Global Services customers with System z

Posted in IBM Mainframe business news, tagged , , , , , , on April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

IBM broadened its System z mainframe offerings today with the addition of a new model specifically designed to manage accounts payable and electronic bill fulfillment functions for customers of IBM Global Services.
The new offering combines a System z10 mainframe with enterprise software packages from IBM, including Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager for Global Services and [...]

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DB2 Table Status – Reason Code

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1        The table is in the Set Integrity Pending No Access state. The integrity of the table is not enforced and the content of the table may be invalid. An operation on a parent table or an underlying table that is not in the Set Integrity Pending No Access state may also receive this error if [...]

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CICS MAP

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How to make the CICS program to dynamically determine, by row/column positioning, where a popup window (map) will appear on the screen?
Option 1: The easiest way is to put a -1 in the length field of the output map. It will position the cursor “inside” the first (I believe) field that has a length of [...]

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Web Query Tool for DB2

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 NEW YORK, NY — 04/01/08 — Information Builders, the leader in production business intelligence (BI) systems, is proud to announce a joint roadmap for key enhancements to IBM’s DB2 Web Query for customers of the i5/OS. These enhancements were developed based on the feedback that IBM and Information Builders received from some of the 7,500 [...]

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Syslog

Posted in MF TIPS, tagged , , on April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

WRITELOG command in MVS to force the syslog to spool and start another one.
To have the hardcopy message set recorded on the system log, enter:      V SYSLOG,HARDCPY

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U.S. suspends IBM from seeking new federal contracts

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – IBM is under investigation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over an $80 million bid it made in 2006 to modernize EPA financial systems and has been suspended from seeking new contracts with all U.S. agencies, the company said on Monday.
In addition, IBM said the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern [...]

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